Maximize array sum after K negations | Set 2

Given an array of size n and a number k. We must modify array K number of times. Here modify array means in each operation we can replace any array element arr[i] by -arr[i]. We need to perform this operation in such a way that after K operations, sum of array must be maximum?

The idea used in above post is to replace the minimum element arr[i] in array by -arr[i] for current operation. In this way we can make sum of array maximum after K operations. Once interesting case is, once minimum element becomes 0, we don’t need to make any more changes.

The implementation used in above solution uses linear search to find minimum element. The time complexity of the above discussed solution is O(nk)

In this post an optimized solution is implemented that uses a priority queue (or binary heap) to find minimum element quickly.

Note that this optimized solution can be implemented in O(n + kLogn) time as we can create a priority queue (or binary heap) in O(n) time.

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